Books with author Daniel. ,Roe

Sarah loves silly socks. With a silly sock day coming up at school and her favorite socks in the dirty laundry Sarah and her family have to kick their sock cleaning into high gear. When her favorite socks get ruined Sarah learns an important lesson in how to handle when things don't go the way we think they should. Is her silly sock day ruined or does it turn out better than she imagined?

This book costs the same as a cup of coffee. It was written by 8 year old Royce for boys to use their imagination and read to their dads.BOOK DESCRIPTION:Steve and his friends set out on an epic adventure against Herobrine and his army. As they venture, they meet a terrible griefer. To Steve's surprise, the griefer joins them. When the final battle of Herobrine comes, it looks bleak. Can they survive?

Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked as a teacher, not far from the mainland town where he grew up. By turns harsh, desolate, and starkly beautiful, the island offers its temporary residents respire from lives filled with abuse, violence, and chaos. But as Robb discovers, peace, solitude, and a structured lifestyle can go only so far toward healing the anger and hurt he finds not only in his students but within himself - feelings left over from the broken home of his childhood. Lyrical and heartfelt, Crossing the Water is the memoir of his first eighteen months on Penikese, and a poignant meditation on the many ways that young men can become lost.Ranging in age from fourteen to seventeen and numbering up to eight at a time, some of Robb's students at Penikese have been convicted of crimes including arson, assault, and armed robbery. They are tough, troubled kids who are sentenced to the school by courts in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. During their time at Penikese, they live in a house together with the staff of four and share the responsibilities of living on the island - chopping wood, cooking meals, maintaining and repairing the buildings, caring for the farm animals, and doing other chores. For many of the students, it's the first time they've experienced such a combination of discipline and freedom, or the kind of trust extended to them by the staff. And despite their resistance and sometime wildness, Robb soon finds that they have the capacity not only to confound but to surprise him, both with their insight and their vulnerability. In Crossing the Water, he renders the boys' voices and his life with them - the confrontations, the rare epiphanies, the flashes of humor - with great vividness.

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Little Bea is a busy, busy bee, and she loves snowy days. Snowballs! She needs to throw them. Snow angels! She needs to make them. A snowy hill! She needs to sled down it. Ice! She needs to skate on it. Hot chocolate! Yum! It's her favorite. The wide wintery world! Is there anything better than exploring it with friends? Bzzzzzzzzzzzzz.Won't you come play in the snow with Little Bea?

By 1763, the people of England's American colonies were shaping their own lives apart from their royal rulers. Ties between the British and the colonists were becoming weak, and a new sense of being "American" was developing. Independence Now takes the reader from the colonial period when young men like George Washington were becoming leaders and the British oppression was growing, to the days of the fiery Revolutionary War. Topics covered in this book include the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre, the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, and the issues surrounding these events. The book discusses the reasons for the war from the American and British perspectives, the involvement of African-Americans and women in the revolution, and our long, hard path to victory. The book also features a "Points of View" section that shows the debate over whether or not America should be independent through the words of Benjamin Franklin and his son, the royal governor of New Jersey, William Franklin. Comparisons are also made between the strengths and weaknesses of England and America at the time to help readers understand both sides of the fight. Independence Now ends with a "Legacy," telling a short bit of follow-up history to the events covered in the text. Like the other titles in the Crossroads America series, this book is illustrated with period paintings, drawings, and photographs. Also included are a glossary and an index.